Africa Sudan Sudanese banks will receive a money injection from the UAE to support the local economy; the two sides agreed to establish strategic economic partnerships in the areas of roads, ports, railways, military cooperation and exchange of experience
Africa Morocco Under an agreement recently signed in Essaouira, the first Chair in Jewish Law will be established at the Mohammed V University in Rabat
Africa South Sudan The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the Mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) until 15 March 2023, confirming a ceiling of 17.000 soldiers and 2.101 policemen as part of the mission forces
Africa Malawi Egyptian multinational Elsewedy Electric will build a 50-MW solar power plant; Energy Minister stressed the need to increase energy production in the country, heavily dependent on hydroelectric power plants and therefore very vulnerable to climate change
Africa Cameroon The Minister of Water and Energy has ordered the rationing of 'energy-intensive' companies to allow households to be supplied in the midst of the crisis caused by, among other things, February's drop in production at the Memvé'élé dam in the dry season
Africa Mozambique According to the latest information released by the National Institute for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction (INGD), Gombe has affected 400.175 people and displaced at least 24.000
Africa South Africa South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, ranking first out of 164, with a society where 10% of the population owns more than 80% of the wealth, according to a report by the World Bank
Africa Central African Republic The reconciliation dialogue with the unarmed opposition and civil society, promised by President Faustin Archange Touadéra, begins today and will end on Sunday
Africa Liberia Logos Hope ship, the world's largest floating library, is part of the Bicentennial celebrations of the arrival of the first free blacks from America, opened to the public Saturday at the port of Monrovia
Africa Senegal The Akon City project, an Afrofuturist city inspired by the imaginary kingdom of Black Panther, Wakanda, is at starting point, with talks of financial fraud and land swindle, with the alleged complicity of state institutions
Africa Ethiopia To modernize the public transport system, Addis Ababa municipal authorities have signed agreements worth $29.17 million with two Chinese companies for the purchase of buses
Africa Guinea The Russian mining company Rusal announced that it will soon be unable to pay salaries to its 4.000 employees in the country due to banking restrictions; activities are suspended and several plants have already been closed for almost a month
Africa Ivory Coast There are 28 million permanent residents in the country, a fifth of whom live in the economic capital district of Abidjan, which has a population density thirty times higher than the national average, according to the fifth general census